Recursive Ticklers by Novagats

Format: Commander

Commander: Celes, Rune Knight

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Celes, Rune Knight leads a Mardu graveyard recursion deck that wins through incremental +1/+1 counters and combat. Celes loots on entry and rewards any creature that enters from or was cast from the graveyard by putting a counter on your whole board, turning repeated reanimation into a growing army. The main plan is to trade and mill creatures, then recur them with Debtors' Knell, Sun Titan, and sorceries to trigger Celes and counter payoffs. Secondary paths use mass reanimation with Rise of the Dark Realms and big counter lords like Necropolis Regent. Debtors' Knell acts as a hidden commander, providing a free creature each upkeep when Celes is unavailable.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Angel of Serenity
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Author of Shadows
  • 1 Banon, the Returners' Leader
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bold Plagiarist
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Citadel Siege
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyan, Vengeful Samurai
  • 1 Deathbringer Liege
  • 1 Deathbringer Regent
  • 1 Debtors' Knell
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elite Scaleguard
  • 1 Endless Ranks of HYDRA
  • 1 Espers to Magicite
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Gau, Feral Youth
  • 1 General Leo Cristophe
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Infernal Offering
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Necropolis Regent
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Orzhov Advokist
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rejoin the Fight
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sabin, Master Monk
  • 1 Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Selfless Squire
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Siegfried, Famed Swordsman
  • 1 Silverquill Campus
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Searchlight
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 1 Sunscorch Regent
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Tempting Contract
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
  • 1 Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tri-Sentinel, Act of Vengeance
  • 1 Typhoid Mary, Fractured
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Victory Chimes
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Withering Torment